The guidelines prohibit content showing, promoting, or facilitating sexual abuse, exploitation, or harm of minors, and prohibit sexually suggestive behavior or significant exposure involving young people. The age-restriction mechanism limits certain content to adult audiences.
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The youth safety provisions establish multiple overlapping prohibition categories for minor-related content, and the age-restriction mechanism creates an operational content filtering obligation for material deemed inappropriate for users under 18. These provisions engage COPPA and similar international child protection frameworks.
Interpretive note: The document does not specify the technical mechanisms or accuracy standards for age-restriction identification, nor does it describe appeal procedures for age-restriction designations, creating uncertainty about operational consistency.
The updated Community Guidelines footer no longer includes a direct link to TikTok's Children's Privacy Policy. Previously, users navigating the Community Guidelines could access child-specific privacy disclosures through the footer link. The Children's Privacy Policy itself may remain available on TikTok's platform, but this change reduces the visibility and discoverability of that document from the Community Guidelines page. Users seeking child privacy information from the Community Guidelines will need to navigate elsewhere or search for it independently.
View change record →The agreement prohibits content involving sexual abuse, exploitation, or harm of minors across multiple categories, and authorizes TikTok to restrict certain content to adult audiences only. Under these terms, content identified as age-restricted is removed from visibility for users under 18 rather than removed from the platform entirely.
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Compare across platforms →"Youth Sexual and Physical Abuse: We don't allow content that shows, promotes, or facilitates the sexual abuse, exploitation, or harm of young people. Body Exposure and Sexualized Behaviors: We don't allow some types of body exposure or sexual behavior, including nudity, sexual activity, sexual services, or any sexually suggestive behavior or significant exposure involving young people. We Age-Restrict Content Some content may not be appropriate for people under 18. When we identify content that falls under the 'Age-Restricted' standards in our Community Guidelines, we make it viewable only for adults.Excerpt from TikTok's Community Guidelines
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: These provisions engage COPPA in the US, which governs collection of personal information from children under 13 and may impose additional obligations on TikTok regarding age verification.
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The youth safety provisions establish multiple overlapping prohibition categories for minor-related content, and the age-restriction mechanism creates an operational content filtering obligation for material deemed inappropriate for users under 18. These provisions engage COPPA and similar international child protection frameworks.
The agreement prohibits content involving sexual abuse, exploitation, or harm of minors across multiple categories, and authorizes TikTok to restrict certain content to adult audiences only. Under these terms, content identified as age-restricted is removed from visibility for users under 18 rather than removed from the platform entirely.
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